Hi all
I've been selectivly breeding pastel B.c.i for a long time now. I have two original bloodlines that came from two WC males at around 1990. One is a yellow pastel and the other an orange pastel . I've been on the look out for weird stuff since i buy snakes and there's some really nice WC mutations landing in Canada every year. Including Anery, Pastels, WC.Salmon tails (Centrals), Ghost balls, high yellow balls, axanthic ball, weirdo axanthic ball ( like paradox ) , really high white emmy's and the list goes on and on......
I lost all my snakes in 98' in the great ice storm we had in quebec . To make it brief we didint had electricity for 5 weeks. We had to heat with a wood stove because the generator wasent efficient enough to heat all the house.
All the snakes ( 200+) were placed around it in huge pillowcases which were placed in cardboard boxes....As we( me and my partner at that time ) had to climb on the roof for some deicing 10" to 12" thick to prevent costly damages on the house, a big burm got out and smashed one oil lamp on the floor. They found a 16ft foot burm under the pile of debrie in the basement two weeks later when they were digging with a mechanical shovel. The rest is history. For those who dont know the whole story it will be explained in my website once finished. All my bloodlines and their history will be in it to.
Enough history now...Since then my partner got out of snakes and I restarted all over on my own. I was fortunate enough to purshase some babies I sold in the 90' back from different people, from the original WC bloodlines I had and restarted to breed them....
In a previous post, Nuno's post, there was some questionning on that morph....
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Very nice. Pastel? Who has pastels in Canada? Might have to get me one of those. Trevor
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I think you'll find some here in Canada Trev.
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"First, what is a "Pastel"? [...] A Pastel is this: A Boa that has an odd overall wash lacking the normal amount of black and a reduction in black pigmentation in particular throughout the pattern. This is particularly apparent in babies, which have the same kind of washed out pattern as Hypos. The saddles as well as the side blotches have less black than "normal". In fact, often the side blotches have no black whatsoever. That's it, no more no less. Now it is unfortunate that this leaves a lot to interpretation. Identifying Pastels can be and is subjective. It is very much a matter of opinion. There are definitely degrees of "Pastelism". How much Pastelism is required to label an animal "Pastel"? I don't know what measure others may use, but I know what I look for in babies. I look for nearly no black in the side pattern. A very small amount of black can be found but nearly none normally. Sorry this can't be more definitive but it just can't."
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Chappy, I agree with you for the complete lack or partially of blothes on the sides and the clean background. I have what i call a reduced pattern bloodline of my own that get the same effect tho. See pics bellow. I have to say that is a co-dom gene to. And that there is degrees of pastelism. They also must have a "pastel background".
From my point of view these are what I call pastels and thats what I label them when sold. They also gonna give around 1/4 of pastels when bred to a regular female.
Now here's a pastel Reduced Pattern from my bloodline. It has pastel blood and redused pattern blood as well. You can see the reduction of saddles on the sides they are almost non existant. It has the Reduced Pattern in it ...The saddles on his back are reduced as well. The most important is the background color in my eyes.
This one is also from my bloodline but dosent have the reduced pattern bloodline in it. In contrary of what is believed they get more pastel color as they age. Its around one year old on those pics. I produced it in 2002 and it was sold to a friend of mine "Kirk Perry" we selected it from a litter that had four pastels in it, with Mike Perry. ( a good friend of mine at that time )....
This one is a plain clean reduced pattern of my bloodline. Its a good pic to compare with the pastels. And understand what i mean by clean sides in the reduced pattern.. Its far from the pastel color. What do you think?
And another baby see the top saddles again. Its another reduced pattern.
My goal with those mutations ( and some others which i'll show sometime later ) is to put some "Salmon Hypo" in them and see what they give after. I think they gonna produce some weird nice looking babies.
If there is something that you dont understand in this text please tell me i'll try to explain it better , my english is not that good.
Hope you like,
Stav
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